From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2002-08-10T23:55:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Unit testing is considered harmful

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lyle Johnson" <lyle@knology.net>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2002 9:26 AM
Subject: Re: Unit testing is considered harmful


> As many readers of comp.lang.ruby and ruby-talk will already know, Edsger
W.
> Dijkstra, author of the famous "Go To Statement Considered Harmful" letter
> (http://www.acm.org/classics/oct95), passed away on August 6. Here's a
link
> to one obituary (from the UTex CS department):
>
>     http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/UTCS/notices/dijkstra/ewdobit.html
>
> Dijkstra's contributions to the field of computer science are
overwhelming;
> to quote the obit: "Dijkstra enriched the language of computing with many
> concepts and phrases, such as structured programming, separation of
> concerns, synchronization, deadly embrace, dining philosophers, weakest
> precondition, guarded command, the excluded miracle, and the famous
> 'semaphores' for controlling computer processes. The Oxford English
> Dictionary cites his use of the words 'vector' and 'stack' in a computing
> context."

I didn't know that. That is so sad.

I live ten miles from UT, and I didn't know. Obviously I am
far out of the loop.

Hal